Thailand aims to meet 20% of its total energy consumption from renewable resources by that date, and has set a target to generate 500MW of solar power.
In late 2007 it launched generous solar feed-in tariffs designed to help meet the goal, prompting a surge in interest that means the target is already oversubscribed.
“We have already received applications to build 3,358MW of solar projects,” says Twarath Sutabutr, deputy director-general at the Department of Alternative Energy Development and Efficiency (DEDE), part of Thailand’s Ministry of Energy.
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